This is a case of poor-programming, on the script coder's part, it is not so
much a vunerability.
That variable only contains what it is sent by apache. it doesn't parse it.
nor is it supposed to. If you want to ensure there is no XSS going on, parse
the variable, escape characters, etc as it IS user input.
This CAN be a vulnerability with individual scripts, however, it is not a vuln
with PHP or Apache.
On Monday 23 April 2007 17:31, Michal Majchrowicz wrote:
There exist a flaw in a way how Apache and php combination handle the
$_SERVER array.
If the programmer writes scrip like this:
<?php
echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'];
?>
He will assume that REQUEST_METHOD can only by: GET,POST,OPTIONS,TRACE
and all that stuff. However this is not true, since Apache accepts
requests that look like this:
GET<script>alert(document.coookie);</script> /test.php HTTP/1.0
And the output for this would be:
GET<script>alert(document.coookie);</script>
Of course it is hard to exploit (I think some Flash might help ;)) and
I don't know if it is exploitable at all. But programmers should be
warned about this behaviour. You can't trust any variable in the
$_SERVER table!
Regards Michal Majchrowicz.
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